Edited Special Issues of Journals

Parliamentary Affairs 2013, vol. 66 (1)
Follow the above link to see the table of contents of a special issue on the "French Presidential and Parliamentary Elections 2012" (co-edited with Raymond Kuhn). I co-authored the introductory article, as well as contributing one of the research articles.

Modern and Contemporary France 2010, vol. 18 (4)
Follow the above link to see an overview of a special issue on the theme of "Women in French Politics". I wrote the introductory article, as well as contributing one of the research articles.

French Politics 2008, vol. 6 (2)
Follow the above link to see an overview of a symposium of papers that I edited on forecasting the 2007 French presidential and legislative elections. I wrote the introductory article, as well as contributing one of the research articles.

French Politics, Culture and Society 2012, vol. 30(3): 45-60
Follow the above link to see the final pre-publication version of my article entitled "Progress but Still no Présidente: Women and the 2012 French Presidential Elections". The abstract can be accessed here, where the full article can also be accessed with a subscription. Email me for more information about the final version.

French Politics 2008, vol. 6 (2): 152-165
Follow the above link to see my article entitled "How a High Proportion of Candidates Becomes a Low Proportion of Députées: A New Model to Forecast Women’s Electoral Performance in French Legislative Elections".

"The Causes and Consequences of Male Over-representation: A Research Agenda." With Elin Bjarngård. Presented at the ECPR Joint Sessions, Warsaw. Available here.

April 2014

"What Makes a Good Politician? Reassessing the Criteria Used for Political Recruitment." Presented at the ECPR Joint Sessions, Salamanca. Available here.

September 2013

"Do Gender Quotas Produce a Different Class of Politician?" Presented at the ECPR General Conference, Bordeaux. Available here.

August 2012

"Quotas for Men? Reframing Gender Quotas as a Means of Quality Control". Presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, New Orleans. Available here.

April 2012

"How Sex and Party Interact: Women in the French Right-Wing Majority" (co-authored with Réjane Sénac). ECPR Joint Sessions, Antwerp.

"Women in the 2012 French Elections: Candidates, Voters, Policies." PSA Annual Conference, Belfast. (Also presented at the conference on the French Presidential and Parliamentary Elections, Queen Mary, University of London, May 2012.)

"Free Choice, Discrimination or Path Dependence? Gendered Composition of Parliamentary Committees in France". PSA Annual Conference, Belfast. (Also presented at the University of Manchester, December 2011.)

"Gendered policy-making in the French National Assembly.". LEGIPAR final conference, Bordeaux.

September 2011

"Has 'Parity' Encouraged the Advocacy of Women's Rights in Parliament?" Presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association (APSA), Seattle. Available here.

April 2011

"'True' and 'Assumed' Gender Differences: A Study of Representation in the French Parliament." Presented at the Political Studies Association (PSA) Annual Conference, London. Available here. An updated version of this paper was presented at a workshop on Gender Quotas organised by Mona Lena Krook at Washington University in St Louis, May 2011.

"Parliamentary Representation: How Does the Parti Socialiste Compare to Other Parties?" Presented at the PSA Annual Conference, London.

"The Representation of Whom - and What? Self Perceptions of French MPs of their Role as Representatives." Co-authored with Réjane Sénac-Slawinski. Presented at the PSA Annual Conference, London.

January/February 2011

"Do Women MPs have different issues and/or perspectives? A Study of Gender Differences in the French Parliament." Presented at the European Conference on Politics & Gender, Budapest, Hungary. An updated version of this paper was presented at the PSA Women and Politics group workshop, Birkbeck, London, February 2011.

September 2010

"Forecasting how Votes Will Translate into Seats in the French 2012 Legislative Elections." Presented at the annual meeting APSA, Washington D.C.. Available here.

February 2010

"Gendered campaigns for executive office: a new comparative framework." Presented at Shifting Agendas, the PSA Women and Politics Conference, Manchester.

September 2009

"Different Paths, Different Perspectives? An Examination of Whether Men’s and Women’s Parliamentary Career Trajectories Translate into Policy Outcomes in France." Presented at the annual meeting of APSA, Toronto, Canada. Available here.

May 2009

"Gendered Leadership in the Fifth Republic". Presented at a colloquium on Political Leadership in the Fifth Republic, Oxford.

January 2009

"Elite Bias, not Voter Bias: Gender Quotas and Candidate Performance in France". Co-authored with Mona Lena Krook and Katherine Opello. Presented at the European Conference on Politics and Gender, Belfast.

August/September 2008

"Second among unequals? A study of whether France's 'quota women' are up to the job". Presented at the annual meeting of APSA, Boston, USA. Available here (enter my name in the search). Also presented at the annual meeting of EPOP (the PSA specialist group on Elections, Public Opinion and Parties), Manchester, September 2008, and available here.

"A right Royal mess: why the French said 'non' to the opportunity of having a woman president". Co-authored with Sheila Perry, University of Nottingham. Presented at the annual meeting of APSA, Boston, USA. Available here (enter my name in the search). Also presented at the annual meeting of EPOP, Manchester, September 2008, and available here.

June 2008

"Has parity led to political renewal?". Presented at the conference entitled "Women in French Politics: still le deuxième sexe?", London.

"Parity, gender and French elections - will 2007 be the year for women in French politics?". Presented at the PSA French Politics and Policy Conference on the 2007 Presidential and Parliamentary elections, Oxford.

"To boldly go where no woman has gone before: is the mere presence of a strong female candidate enough to increase the substantive representation of women?" . Presented at the ECPR Joint Sessions, Helsinki, in the workshop entitled "What is going on in Political Representation? The substantive representation of women". Available here.

April 2007

"Will 2007 be the year for women in French politics?". Presented at the PSA annual conference, Bath. Available here. An earlier version of this paper was presented at the PSA Women and Politics Conference, Birkbeck, University of London, February 2007.

September 2006

"Putting the 'party' into 'parity': a new model for understanding the implementation of compulsory quotas". Presented at the ECPR Graduate Conference, Essex. Available here.

"Parity in France's 2007 elections: will parties redeem themselves or repeat the failure of 2002?". Co-authored with Aurélia Troupel. Presented at the ECPR Graduate Conference, Essex. Available here.

April 2006

"Explaining French parties' response to the 'parity' law: a new theoretical approach". Presented at the PSA annual conference, Reading. Available here.
Also presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, April 2006.

September 2005

"Accounting for the variable performance of parity in France: an institutional analysis". Presented at the general conference of the European Consortium of Political Research (ECPR), Budapest. Available here.

"What impact has the 'parity' law had on French political parties?". Presented at the ECPR general conference, Budapest. Available here.

April 2005

"The power of sex and incumbency: a longitudinal study of electoral performance in France". Presented at the PSA annual conference, Leeds. Available here. Recipient of the Vincent Wright award for best paper on a French politics theme.